Window-curtain support



June 24, 1924.

M. M. WATSON WINDOW CURTAIN SUPPORT Filed June 2, 1923 Patented June 24, v1924.

UNITED STATES MARGARET M. WATSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WINDO OURTAIN SUPPORT.

Application filed June 2,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARGARET M. VVA'rsolv, a citizen of Canada, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow-Cuitain Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to certain improvements in curtain supports for windows generally, and has for its principal object to provide fora support adapted to sustain the depending end portions of lace curtains or similar window draperies above the sash opening of a window, when the sash is raised for ventilation purposes, and whereby the curtains or draperies will be prevented from being mussed, crushed or otherwise damaged, such as has heretofore occurred in known methods of securing the curtain or drapery ends clear of a window opening for the obtaining of the full and unobstructed ventilating eifects therefrom and against being blown about b the i'nrush of air therethrough. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide for a curtain support of the character mentioned, and one of a comparatively simple and inexpensive construction and arrangement, such as will be easy to install and operate as well as durable in use, and which will be capable of vertical adjustment to effect a raising and lowering of the supported ourtain or drapery ends in the manner hereinbefore indicated for the same. i

With the forgoing and other equally .important objects in View, the invention resides in the certain new and useful construction and arrangement as will be hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a window showing a preferred embodiment of the invention as applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1, p

' Figure 3 is a vertical section through the curtain support per se, showing a modified form of the elevating cord.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of the vertically movable portion or member of the support.

Referring to the drawing, the improved curtain support as shown therein comprises an upper stationary member 10 formed of 1923, Serial No. 642,923.

telescopically engaged tube sections 11 and 12, and a lower relatively movable member 13 formed of similarly engaged tube sections 14 and 15. j r

The upper member 10 is to be adjusted lengthwise to the full width of the sash receiving opening of a window casing, and has the opposite outer ends of its telescopic sect-ions 11 and 12 outturned to provide flanges 16 to abut the inner faces of the vertical side portions (0 of the window casing and for the fastening of the same thereto by means of screws or the like 17, while the lower movable member 13 is to be adjusted to a length slightly less than the width of the window opening for free movement verticall between the opposite side portions a of the Window casing. Immediately inward of the opposite outer ends of the sections 14 and 15, of the movable member 13, are formed'aligned pairs of upper and lower openings or eyelets 18, 18, and 19, 19', respectively, which, when the lower member 13 is disposed in operative relation below the upper stationary member 10, are aligned with similar openings or eyelets 20 formed in the lower sides of the sections 11 and 12 of the latter.

The lower movable member 13 is to be supported from the upper stationary member 10 by means of a flexible element 21, such as a suitable length of cordror wire, suitably looped between the members for the purpose, and which has a central or intermediate portion passing through the tube sections 14 and 15, of the lower member 10, with its opposite end portions passing outwardly of the upper of the openings or eyelets 18 and 19 therein, and from thence to and inwardly of the openings or eyelet-s 20 in the sections 11 and 12, of the upper member 10, through the latter and then outwardly of the openings or eyelets 20, from which they depend and pass through the pairs. of aligned openings or eyelets 18, 18, and 19, 19, all in a manner that the lower member 13 will be supported in parallel relation with and below the upper member 10. The free depending ends of the flexible element 21 are preferably provided with counter-weights 22, so that the .lower movable member 13 will be sustained in any desired position with respect to the upper member 10, when not in active use.

In the use of the curtain support as thus constructed and arranged, and with the window to which the same. is secured prolace curtains Z) will be looped in an upward direction and laid over the lower member 13, so that by now grasping the weightedend portions of the flexible element 21 and pull- .ing downward on thesame, the lower memb91 13 will be raised to'a desired heightto support the looped ends of the lace curtalns .72 clear of the sash opening.

- To sustain the. movable member 13 in any of its elevated positions, when the curtain ends are supported thereon, the depending ends of the flexible element 21 may be wound around or otherwise engaged with suitable cleats or the like 23 secured at the opposite sides a, of the window casing, for the purpose, or, if desired, the openings or eyelets 18 and 19 at the lower sides of the sections 14 and 15, of the lower member-13, maybe formed withtapered oifset slots or openings 18 and 19", respectively, for the wedging of the free ends of the flexible element into engagement therewith, for such purpose.

In the event of the lower member 13 being disposed in an elevated position, by the action of the counter-weight 22 when the memher is not'in active use, the same is to be moved to a lowered position for the placing of the depending curtain ends thereon by a pull cord or the like 25 depending from an eyelet 24 secured at the under side of the tube section 15, which eyelet 24 is preferably positioned at the approximate center of the 'member 13 whereby to equalize the downward pull on the flexible element 21 between the lower and upper members '13 and 10.

To prevent the possible slipping of the looped curtain ends from engaged positionv on theclower member 13, the upper sides of the tube sections 14 and 15 thereof, are provided with a series of frictional members 26 various changes in and modifications of the same may be resorted to without departing 7 from the spirit of the invention, or the scope of the claims appended hereto.

' As, shown inFi 3 one of the'extensions of the element 21 may be dispensed with: and providing thereby means whereby the sections 14 and 15 may be elevated by pulling .upon one end'of the element 21. This requires that the element 21 shall be anchored firmly to the sections 11 or 12 as shown at 27'- in said Figure 3. Other modifications may be employed for varying the working posi- 1 tion of the tubes l iand 15.

Having thus fully described the in'vention, what is claimed, is

1. 'Acurtain or drapery support for*win-- dows comprising a telescopic tubular s'ta-rc i tionary' member a telescopic tubular mow able member disposed below saidstationary member, and an adjustable suspension means extending between members. v 1 r 2. A curta n or drapery support for windows comprising a stationary tubularjmem= ber, a movable tubular member disposed below'said stationary member, and'a flexible and 7: through said suspension elementlooped between theopposite end portions 'of said members and passing through thebores thereof, said suspension means being adjustable for effecting the raising and loweringamovementsof said movable member." I

3. A 'curtam or drapery supportfor win- 25 dows comprising a telescopic stationary member ofv tubular formation, a telescopic movable member of a tubular formation dis-' 1 ible suspension element looped betweensaid of and having its freeends depending below said movable member, weights secured to the opposite free ends of said fiexible element for counter balancing "saidmovable member in any of its inactive posit ons of use,'and

4. A curtain or drapery support windows comprising astationary tubular :mem' ber of telescopic sections, a movable member posed below said stationary member, aflexsee members adjacent the opposite ends-there-' of similar formation disposed below said stationary member, a suspension cord pass ing through the opposite ends of said mem bers and forming a continuous loop throughand between said members, and cord secur ing means carried by said movable member.

MARGARET M. wArsoN. 

